BURMA -- LUCE, G.H. Old Burma - Early Pagàn. N.Y., 1969-70. 3 vols. W. 2 cold. & 1 b&w, tipped in front., 3 maps, 3 maps & 2 tables in rear pocket of vol. 2, & 457 plates. 4°. Ocl. (Artibus Asiae, Suppl. 15).
€ 200
CAMBODIA -- ANGKOR WAT -- (MARCHAL, H., L. FINOT, J. COMMAILLE, a.o.). Le Temple d'Angkor Vat. Paris, G. v. Oest, 1929-32. 3 in 7 vols. 41, (3); (4); 18, (2); (4); 12, (4); 6, (2); 6, (2) pp. W. tog. 608 fine full-p. photo-engr. plates, partly lge-fold., of the in- and exterior of the temple complex, and 13 fold. plans. Fol. Fine cont. full vellum covers w. gilt calf spines in Art Deco style, ruled in gilt and w. gilt lettering on front sides, a.e.g., in 2 slipcases (first 2 vols.) and or. paper over cardboard covers, uncut (last 3 vols.). (Calf spines a bit rubbed, last 3 vols. a bit shaky (sides detached, spines a bit dam., some foxing). (Mémoires Archéologiques publié p. l'École Française d'Extrème-Orient, (EFEO), tome II).
€ 800
CAMBODIA -- DELAPORTE, L. Voyage au Cambodge. L'Architecture Khmer. Par., 1880. W. 175 engr. & 1 map. Cont. hcf. extra w. spine w. raised bands & red letterpiece, upper side w. (faded) gilt tooled inscription 'Lycee Carnot'. (Hinge delicate in the beginning but a sturdy copy).
€ 150
CAMBODIA -- GROSLIER, G. Arts & Archéologie Khmers. Revue des Recherches sur les Arts (…) du Cambodge (…). Vols. I & II (all publ.). Paris, 1921-26. 2 in 4 vols. W. many maps & plans (some fold.), photographic plates & photo's & drawings in the text. 4°. Cont. cl. w. gilt lettering. (Discreet library stamps throughout, mostly on tissueguards).
CAMBODIA -- PARMENTIER, H., L. FINOT & V. GOLOUBEW. Le Temple d'Içvarapura (Bantay Srei, Cambodge). 1926. W. 59 (partly fold.) plates. Fol. Mod. cl. w. owrps. pasted on. (Clean, bright & well-bound). (Mémoires archéologiques publ. par l'Ecole Française D'Extreme-Orient, Tome I). -- G. DE CORAL RÉMUSAT. L'Art Khmer. Les grandes étapes de son évolution. 1940. W. 2 fold. maps & 44 photogr. plates. 4°. Cont. hcl. (Discreet library stamp). -- M. GITEAU. Iconographie du Cambodge Post-Angkorien. 1975. W. 1 fold. map, many illustr. & b&w photographic plates. 4°. Owrps. -- H. MARCHAL. Le décor et la sculpture Khmers. 1951. W. 64 photogr. plates. 4°. Mod. cl. w. owrps. pasted on. -- (4).
€ 220
CAMBODIA - VIETNAM -- CHAMPA -- BOISSELIER, J. La statuaire du Champa. 1963. Prof. illustr. -- G. MASPERO. Le Royaume de Champa. 1928. -- Ph. STERN. L'Art du Champa (Ancien Annam). 1942. -- 3 vols. Lge-8°/4°. Mod. cl., all or. front sides laid down.
CHINA -- ALBUM containing 12 handpainted coloured illustrations on pith paper (from the Tetrapanax papyrifer plant)depicting a traditional Qing Dynasty Chinese ceremonial procession. 19th c. Images 210 x 340 mm each, all trimmed with blue silk ribbon. 4°-obl. Cont. red silk over cardboard bind. (Bind. a bit dam., 9th illustr. w. 2 horizontal tears (but without loss of image), some later annot. in ink on v° front side).
€ 500
CHINA -- BALL, C.J. Chinese and Sumerian. 1913. 4°. Ocl. Rare original edition. -- R.H. v. GULIK. Sexual life in ancient China. A preliminary survey of Chinese sex & society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. (Repr.). 1974. W. ill. Lge-8°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A. HERRMANN. An historical atlas of China. (1966). 4°. Ocl. -- Id. Das Land der Seide und Tibet im Lichte der Antike. 1938. Owrps. -- F.J. TEGGART. Rome and China. A study of correlations in historical events. (1969). Ocl. -- And 9 o. (14).
€ 100
CHINA -- FAVIER, A. Péking. Histoire et description. Peking, Impr. des Lazaristes au Pé-T'ang, 1897. 2 in 1 vol. xii, (4), 336; (6), 337-562, (1) pp. W. 2 fronts., 51 plates with photolithogr. and collographs, 1 tinted map & 660 wood engr. text-ills. 4°. Fine cont. mor. w. raised bands, dec. gilt back, t.e.g. (Cloth on sides a bit stained, corners sl. worn, upper hinge broken, margins a bit stained in places, sl. yellowed, but a v.g. copy).
€ 600
CHINA -- MENNIE, D. The Pageant of Peking. Shanghai, A.S. Watson & Co., 1920. (8), 40 pp. W. 66 plain photo-engr. hinged to mounts. Fol. Or. blue silk over cardboard bind., lettered in gilt on front side, uncut. (Bind. a bit worn/slightly dam., some mild foxing, bookplate on first free endpaper).
CHINA -- NEEDHAM, J. Science & civilisation in China. Vol. 1-3, vol. 4 pt. 1-3, vol. 5 pt. 1-5, 7, 9, 11-13, vol. 6 pt. 1-3, 5-6, vol. 7 pt. 1-2. Cambr., (1954-2008). 23 vols. of the series. Prof. ill. Ohcl. w. dust-j.
CHINA -- NEEDHAM, J. The shorter science & civilisation in China. An abridgement by C.A. Ronan. Vols. 1-3. (1978-86). 3 vols. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- Id. Clerks & craftsmen in China & the West. Lectures & adresses on the hist. of science & technology. 1970. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- Id. Heavenly clockwork. The great astronomical clocks of medieval China. 2nd ed. W. suppl. by J.H. Combridge. (1986). Lge-8°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- Id. The hall of heavenly records. Korean astronomical instruments and clocks 1380-1780. (1986). Lge-8°. Obrds. w. dust-j. -- And 8 o. by Needham. (14).
CHINA -- QI BAISHI. Album with paintings from nature. China, 1952 (?). Concertina folded w. 22 colour woodcuts on paper. 4°. Silk covered wooden brds. (Label on front side w. some insect damage, some very light foxing throughout).
CHINA -- QI BAISHI. Zuo pin xuan ji (Selected Works of Qi Baishi). Beijing, Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1959. W. front.-portr. of the artist & num. reprods. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Dust-jacket browned/stained and torn w. loss of paper, interior good). - Rare first edition.
€ 130
CHINA -- SIRÉN, O. Chinese paintings in American collections. Par. & Brux., 1928. 2 vols. W. 200 b&w. collotypes. Fol. Ocl., t.e.g. (Neat annot. in pencil in the margins of some plates). -- KIAI-TSEU-YUAN HOUA TCHOUAN. Encyclopédie de la peinture chinoise. Trad. & comm. p. R. Petrucci. Par., 1918. W. c. 500 ill in the text. Fol. Cont. cl. w. classical red letterpiece. Printed in a lim. ed. of 550 copies. -- C. FU-TSUNG. Ninety Years of Wu School Painting. Taipei, (1976). W. many b&w illustr. 4°. Ocl. (A few underscorings & annot. in the margins). -- (4).
CHINA -- SIRÈN, O. Chinese sculpture fom the 5th to the 14th Century. (Reprint ed. Lond. 1925). N.Y., 1970. 4 in 2 vols. W. many b&w photographic plates. 4°. Ocl. -- Id. Chinese Painting. Leading Masters and Principles. (Reprint ed. Lond. 1956-58). N.Y., 1973. 7 vols. W. many b&w illustr. 4°. Ocl. -- (9).
€ 300
GOLOUBEW, V., ed. Ars Asiatica. Études et documents. Brux./Par., 1914-1935. 18 vols. W. many lovely photographic plates. Fol. Pristine modern cl. w. owrps. pasted on.
€ 1000
INDIA -- FERGUSSON, J. Tree and Serpent Worship: or Illustrations of Mythology and Art in India in the 1st and 4th c. after Christ. From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati. Lond., W.H. Allan & Co. (for the) India Museum, 1868. xii, 247 pp. W. lithogr. front., 57 albumen photogr. by Waterhouse and Griggs of varying size (2 double-p.) laid down on mounts, 42 lithogr. plates (some fold., 2 cold.), and 21 wood-engr. in text. Fol. Or. red hcf., spine gilt, large gilt ornament on front side, t.e.g. (Upper hinge rep. and a bit rubbed, some minor foxing in places, plate 97 affected by insects, some photogr. a little faded, but a v.g. copy w. all the plates called for).
€ 1500
INDIA -- ROUSSELET, L. L'Inde des Rajahs. Voyage dans l'Inde centrale et dans les présidences de Bombay et du Bengale. Paris, 1875. (4), 807 pp. W. front., 6 maps, and 317 full-p. woodengr. ills. 4°. Or. pictorial cl. w. dec. in gilt & black, a.e.g. (Wear at spine ends & extremities, some of the usual age-toning within).
INDIA -- SCHLAGINTWEIT, E. Indien in Wort u. Bild. Eine Schilderung des indischen Kaiserreiches. Lpz., H. Schmidt & C. Günther, 1880. 2 vols. W. many plates & 1 cold. fold. map. 4°. Cont. blind tooled cl. w. gilt lettering. (Some wear to extremities, but a well-bound, complete set).
€ 80
INDIA -- SINGH, C. The paintings of Siva in Indian Art. Delhi, S. Prakashan, 1990. 2 vols. vii, 232 pp. W. many b&w & cold. illustr. Narrow-fol. Obrds. w. dust-j.
INDIA -- SOLTYKOFF, A. Voyages dans l'Inde. 3me éd. (1853). W. full-p. lith. map & 36 tinted full-p. lithogr. views by De Rudder, Marchais, Lehnert, Cupper, a.o. under tissue guards. Lge-8°. Or. exuberantly gilt dec. cl., a.e.g. (Spine skilfully rep., endpapers renewed, a bit age-toned/foxed in places, but a good copy). -- G. LE BON. Les Civilisations de L'Inde. 1887. W. 7 chromolithos, 2 maps and many ill. in the text. 4°. Or. pictorial cl., a.e.g. (Spine sunned, some wear to spine ends & extremities). -- (2).
€ 140
INDIA -- ZWALF, W. A catalogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum. Lond., 1996. 2 vols. 423, 355 pp. W. 16 cold. plates in the text vol. & 680 b&w images in the plate vol. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. In ocl. slipcase.
INDIA - CEYLON -- RIBEIRO, Th. Entre Palmeiras. De Pangim a Salcete e Pondá. Nova-Goa, 1871. Cont. h. mor. (Top of spine a bit dam.). -- F.N.Th. CAETANO do ROSARIO e SOUZA. Nocitica historica e legislação da instrucção publica primaria, secundaria e superior na India Portugueza. Nova-Goa, 1879. Cl. w. or. front side laid down. (Last 2 lvs. rep., browned/foxed in places). Rare, only 3 copies in Worldcat. -- J. OSORIO de CASTRO. Relatorio e annuario da administração do concelho das Ilhas de Gôa. (Year 1904). Nova Goa, 1904. Lge-8°. Cont. hcf. (A bit chafed). -- P.E. PIERIS & M.A.H. FITZLER. Ceylon and Portugal. Pt. 1: Kings and Christians, 1539-52. (All publ.). 1927. Cl. -- A. BAIÃO, ed. Ásia de Joam de Barros. Primeira decade. 4a ed. 1932. 4°. Owrps., uncut. -- (5).
JAPAN -- ANDERSON, W. The Pictorial Arts of Japan. Lond., 1886. xix, 276 pp. W. 80 plates of which 16 cold. chromolithogr. & 146 text-ills. Fol. Or. h. blind tooled mor., front side gilt lettered and decorated, gilt edges.
JAPAN -- BING, S. Collection Ch. Gillot. 1: Objets d'art et Peintures d'Extrême-Orient. 2: Estampes japonaises et livres illustrés. Par., 1904. 2 vols. W. front. portr. of Gillot and num. illustr. Lge-4°. O(h)cl. -- Id., (e.a.). Collection J. Garié. Objets d'art et peintures du Japon et de la Chine. Par., 1906. Prof. ill. Lge-4°. Cont. h. mor. w. owrps. bound up. (Spine discold.). -- (3).
JAPAN -- BING, S. Le Japon artistique. Documents d'art en d'industrie. Par., (1888-91). 36 parts in 2 vols. Sm-fol. W. 340 cold. & tinted full-p. (also fold.) plates, photographs & num. monochrome text-illustr. Cont. hcf., spines gilt. (Spines mildly chafed in places, content a bit age-toned/slightly browned as usual, without the original issue's covers).
JAPAN -- CASAL COLLECTION: Inro or Medicine Boxes. Compiled under the supervision of Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. (Kyoto), Unsodo Co. Ltd., 1973. (6), (26) lvs. W. 50 unnumbered lvs., each with a tipped-in colour plate (tog. 200 cold. ills. on 50 plates), all with descriptive letterpress tissue guards. Lge-fol. Ocl. In cloth protective cover w. 'ivory' fasteners (1 missing) and letterpress title label on front cover. - Japanese texts and summary in English.
JAPAN -- CASAL COLLECTION: Makie Bungu. Compiled under the supervision of Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. (Kyoto), Unsodo Co. Ltd., 1975. (5), (13) lvs. W. 60 numb. lvs., each with a tipped-in colour plate, all with with descriptive letterpress tissue guards. Lge-fol. Ocl. In cloth protective cover w. 'ivory' fasteners and letterpress title label on front cover. (Unavoidable break in upper inner hinge, else fine). - Japanese texts and summary in English.
JAPAN -- CATALOGUE, An Illustrated, Japanese Old (&) Modern Fine Arts displayed at The Japan-British Exhibition, London 1910. Tokyo, The Shimbi Shoin, (1910). 2 vols. Prof. ill. Lge-8°. Or. clothcovered wrps. w. floral pattern, bound Japanese style, w. silk title-lables on front sides, a.e.g.
€ 240
JAPAN -- CHAMBERLAIN, B.H. A practical introduction to the study of Japanese writing. Lond., (etc.), 1899. vi, 482, (4) pp. 4°. Ocl. (Top of spine sl. dam.). Rare first edition. -- And 2 o. (3).
JAPAN -- CHAMBERLAIN, B.H. Letters to Lafcadio Hearn. Compiled by K. Koizumi. 1936. Ocl., t.e.g. (W. stamp). -- M. MURASE. Iconography of the Tale of Genji. Genji Monogatari Ekotoba. (1983). Lge-8°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- R.M. DORSON. Folk legends of Japan. (1966). Ohcl. w. dust-j. -- D. SLADEN. Queer things about Japan. 3rd ed. 1904. W. cold. front. & num. plates. Ocl. (Spine sl. worn). -- MASTERPIECES of Chikamatsu. The Japanese Shakespeare. Transl. by A. Miyamori. Rev. by R. Nichols. 1926. W. 74 ills. Ocl. -- And 5 o. (10).
€ 70
JAPAN -- CHEVALLIER, P. & S. BING. Collection Hayashi: Objects d'Art du Japon et de la Chine. 1902-03. 2 vols. - Id. Collection Hayashi: Estampes, dessins, livres illustrés. 1902. - 3 vols. W. num. plates. 4°. Cl. w. owrps. bound up (2) & owrps.
€ 120
JAPAN -- CHEVALLIER, P. & S. BING. Collection P. Barboutau. Tom. I: Peintures. Par., 1904. Prof. ill. Lge-4°. Or. dec. wrps. (Bind. a bit rubbed). -- COLLECTION du Dr. Mène. Catalogue des armures japonaises des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe s. Par., 1913. Prof. ill. Lge-4°. Cl. w. red mor. letterpiece and owrps. bound up. -- COLLECTION Louis Gonse. Œuvres d'art du Japon. Par., 1924. Prof. ill. 4°. Owrps. -- And 1 o. (4).
JAPAN -- COLLECTION of 2 Japanese harmonica folded photo albums w. wooden lacquer-covered and decorated brds. (c. 1900). W. tog. 200 - mostly coloured - loosely inserted picture postcards of Japanese beauties, professions, customs, ceremonies, scapes, etc., not circulated. -- Added: 95 similar postcards of Japan, loosely added, not circulated. -- Also added: 27 plain picture postards of Singapore, 13 partly coloured of China and 27 of the United States, all published c. 1900. -- Tog. 362 cards, all from the same source and all - apart from some age-toning - in fine condition.
JAPAN -- DAIMYÔ DÔCHÛ. (Illustrated Japanese woodblock book on the processions of the feudal lords in the Edo period). Taishô 7 (=1918). W. 90 cold. woodcut prints, by different artists (Hiroshige, Toyokuni III.) 4°. Or. leporello bound cl. In or. chitsu w. bone fasteners and paper title-label.
JAPAN -- DAIREI SHASHIN CHO. (Imperial Japanese photo album). Tokyo, (Taisho era 4) 1915. W. c. 140 collotype plates (mostly from photographs), w. tissueguards. 4°-obl. Or. white calf spine, silk covered sides w. gilt dec., a.e.g., gilt dec. endpapers.
€ 260
JAPAN -- DELESTRE, M. & S. BING. Collection Ph. Burty. Objets d'Art Japonais et Chinois qui seront vendus a Paris dans les galeries Durand-Ruel. Par., 1891. W. front. & ill. Lge-8°. Beautiful cont. brown h. mor. w. dec. gilt back and owrps. bound up. (Paper a bit browned).
JAPAN -- GONSE, L. Catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art japonais. 1883. Or. pictorial wrps. -- I. KUNIYOSHI. Pictorial biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unifier of Japan. From the woodblock ed. of 1855-1884. 1975. Thick 8°-obl. Ocl. -- J. HARADA. A glimpse of Japanese ideals. Lectures on Japanese art and culture. 1937. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- M. ISHIDA. Japanese Buddhist Prints. (1964). 4°. Ocl. -- J. HILLIER. Catalogue of the Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Gale. 1970. 2 vols. 4°. Ocl. In or. box. -- And 3 o. (9).
JAPAN -- GONSE, L. L'Art Japonais. Paris, A. Quantin, 1883. 2 vols. (4), iv, 310, (2); (4), 366, (6) pp. W. 64 (partly cold.) plates in various printing techniques and num. illustr. in text. Fol. Mod. cf. binds., uncut. (Outer margin of 2 plates a bit dam.).
€ 180
JAPAN -- HARMONICA PAINTING ALBUM containing 15 high quality watercolours, predominantly of birds. Early 20 c. Each image sealed ‘Funobo’. 240 x 358 mm (open). Brown covers, silk over board. (Inside in immaculate condition, back cover w. some insect damage).
JAPAN -- HIDA, T., (ed.). Kiritsu Kôshô Kaisha. The First Japanese Manufacturing and Trading Co. 1987. Fol. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- J.L. BOWES. Japanese marks and seals. (1882). W. cold. front., cold. double-p. map & num. (cold.) ill. Lge-8°. Or. red cl. w. gilt dec. & top edge gilt, uncut. -- T. ITOH. Kura, design and tradition of the Japanese storehouse. (1973). 4°. Ocl. -- And 1 o. (4).
JAPAN -- HIROKI, A., (a.o.). Shigaraki Antique Vases. (Cat. Miho Museum). Tokyo, 1999. Prof. ill. Fol. Ocl. In or. slipcase. (Text in Japanese).
JAPAN -- HOCHBERG, F. v. An Eastern voyage. A journal of the travels (…) through the British Empire in the East and Japan. Lond./N.Y., 1910. 2 vols. viii, 351; viii, 319 pp. W. 73 plates (of which 25 cold.). Ocl. w. gilt lettering & coat of arms on the upper sides, upper edges gilt. (Spine ends slightly bumped & spines age-toned; otherwise a very neat set in a flamboyant binding).
JAPAN -- IZUTSU, G. Genshoku Nihon fukushokushi. (History of Japanese clothing). (1982). Prof. ill. 4°. Ocl. (Text in Japanese). -- THE JAPAN ART-LOVERS CLUB. Exhibition. Kobe, Japan. Nov. 1925. Prof. ill. Ocl., bound as a book block, w. silk ti.-label. -- F. FISCHER. The arts of Hon'ami Kôetsu, Japanese Renaissance master. (2000). Prof. ill. 4°-obl. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (3).
JAPAN -- JAPAN. An Illustrated Magazine of Oriental Travel and Trade Development. 3 vols. (Year 9-11). San Francisco, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, 1919-22. 36 issues in 3 vols. Prof. ill. 4°. Clothbacked brds., w. owrps. bound up. (Ex libr. copies, w. small stamps).
JAPAN -- KOKKA YOHÔ. (Publ. by Ise Naigai Shinpôbu. Tokyo, 1881). W. double-p. text & 18 double-p. chromolithogr. plates depicting sacred treasures, architectural structures, and ceremonial implements of the Ise Grand Shrines (Ise Jingû). Text in Kanbun (classical Chinese as used in Japan), printed with annotation marks for Japanese reading. Fol. Or. silk covered brds. w. title label, bound Japanese style. (Covers a bit worn). - Rare.
JAPAN -- KOKUHÔ. National Treasures of Japan. Tokyo, The Mainichi Newspapers, 1963-1967. 6 text-vols. (English and Japanese text) & 6 accomp. plate-vols. Prof. ill. Ocl. (text-vols.) & or. calfbacked cl. (plate-vols.). Pairwise in 6 clamshell ocl. boxes w. plywood title-piece.
€ 380
JAPAN -- KRAFT, E., ed. Japanische Handschriften und traditionelle Drucke aus der Zeit vor 1868. 1982-94. 5 vols. W. several b&w & cold. plates. 4°. Ocl. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 27.1-5). -- K. GARDNER. Descriptive catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700. 1993. W. 14 cold. & 315 b&w illustr. 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- H. KERLEN. Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Japanese books and maps in public collections in the Netherlands. Amst., 1996. Lge-8°. Ocl. (Japonica Neerlandica VI). -- (7).
JAPAN -- MORRISON, A. The painters of Japan. Lond., 1911. 2 vols. Prof. ill. Ocl., uncut. -- L. BINYON & J.J. O'BRIEN SEXTON. Japanese colour prints. 1923. W. (cold.) plates. 4°. Ocl. -- (3).
JAPAN -- MURAI, G. Hana, a daughter of Japan. Tokyo, 1904. W. cold. fold. front. & 11 (cold.) plates. Or. pictorial silk stitch binding. In or. (dam.) chitsu. -- J.S. de BENNEVILLE. Tales of the Samurai. Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki. Yokohama, 1915. W. cold. front., 3 fold. maps. & num. ill. Or. Japanese style bound cl. w. bone fasteners. (Lower outer corner second half stained). -- Id. Tales of the Tokugawa II. Bakemono Yashiki. Yokohama, 1921. W. fold. map. Or. Japanese style bound cl. w. bone fasteners. -- (3).
JAPAN -- NAGAYAMA, T. An album of historical materials connected with foreign intercourse. Nagasaki, (c. 1918). W. 150 collotype illustr. w. tissue guards. Fol. Or. Japanese thread corded brds. w. gilt dec. silk spine.
JAPAN -- NAKAYAMA, S. A history of Japanese astronomy. Chinese background and Western impact. 1969. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- W.F. VANDE WALLE, ed. Dodonaeus in Japan. Translation and the scientific mind in the Tokugawa period. (2001). Ocl. w. dust-j. -- A. BOSCARO. 16th c. European printed works on the first Japanese mission to Europe. 1973. Ocl. -- Added: S. XIAOCHUN & J. KISTEMAKER. The Chinese sky during the Han. Constellating stars & society. 1997. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Sinica Leidensia 38). -- And: Y. TORA. Salt production techniques in ancient China. Transl. & rev. by H.U. Vogel. 1993. Ocl. -- And 6 o. on China/Japan. (10).
JAPAN -- NESTSUKE/INRO -- LAZARNICK, G. Netsuke & Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures. Honolulu, (1982). 2 vols. 840; 841-1376 pp. Prof. ill. 4°. Ocl. w. mylar dust-j. -- Added: E.A. WRANGHAM. The index of Inrô artists. Ed. by J. Earle. (1995). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (3).
JAPAN -- NORITANÉ, N. Kwan-Ko-Dzu-Setsu. Notice historique et descriptive sur les arts et industriels Japonais. Art Céramique. I. Poterie. Ed. H. Ahrens. Tokyo/Yokohama, C. Lévy, 1876-1878. 5 vols. Tog. 90 handcold. lithogr. plates. Each vol. w. 5-11 text leaves. W. 5 booklets with French text (in publisher's or. printed wrps.). Stitched-bound wrappers with title labels in French and Japanese. Tog. in ocl. chitsu w. bone clasps. (1 clasp gone, chitsu partly faded).
JAPAN -- OGAWA, K. Annual Festivals in Yedo. Yokohama/Tokyo, Kelly & Walsh/Ogawa, 1894. Album containing 12 delicately handcold. collotypes printed on silk, on gilt-flecked mounts. With accompanying English-language text booklet. 4°-obl. Or., leporello bound, silk-thread binding with floral pattern, all edges gilt. In or. dec. brds. chitsu w. bone fastener. (Extremities of chitsu a bit worn, else in excellent condition).
JAPAN -- (OGAWA, K.). Yoshiwara. A Nightless Quarter. (Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1910). (10) double fold. lvs. w. 18 collotypes w. captions in English, cold. by hand, depicting the red light district of Tokyo. 8°-obl. Stab-sewn crêpe paper album. (Some minor dam. to cover, some false folds in places, upper margin and back cover a bit stained, but a good copy).
JAPAN -- (OKADA, M.). Japanese children. (Tokyo, The Toyodo, 1895). (8) pp. of text & double-p. cold. woodblock prints. Sm-4°. Or. ill. brds., bound Japanese style. (Lower part waterstained/wrinkled throughout). -- T.H. JAMES, (transl.). The Wooden Bowl. (Tokyo Kobunsha, 1889). Sm-8°. Or. colour woodblock limp crepe paper wrps. (Wrps. soiled, front side loose). (Japanese fairy tale series no. 16). -- H. SCHIPPLOCK, (übers.). Der Spiegel zu Matsuyama. (Tokyo, T. Hakegawa, 1889). Sm-8°. Or. colour woodblock limp crepe paper wrps. (Spine a bit dam., wrps. stained). -- (3).
JAPAN -- "REISHERINNERINGEN JAPAN October 1906". 2 clamshell hcf. portfolios containing tog. 112 loose (hand) cold. photogr. of Japanes beauties, professions, customs, ceremonies, scapes, etc., all laid down on (warped) mounts, 217 x 275 mm each. (Photographs partially faded and in some cases w. loss of image). -- Added: collection of 52 loose (partly private) photographs from the end of the 19th/first h. 20th c. w. Japanese scenes/scapes, of which 14 on or. photographer mounts, loose in box. - Sold w.a.f., not subject to return.
JAPAN -- SILVER, J.M.W. Sketches of Japanese manners and customs. Lond., Day & Son, 1867. (8), 51 pp. W. chromolithogr. ti-p. & 27 chromolithogr. plates. 4°. Or. gilt dec. pictorial cl., a.e.g. (Bind. a bit rubbed/stained, new endpapers, some minor foxing spots).
JAPAN -- TAKAHASHI, S., (a.o., ed.). Kindai Nihon Hanga Taikei. (The Great Collection of Modern Japanese Woodblock Print Series). Tokyo, Mainichi, (1975-76). 3 vols. W. num. cold. plates. Fol. Ocl. In ocl. clamshell box. With the original cardboard boxes.
€ 400
JAPAN -- THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1923 compiled by the Bureau of Social Affairs, Home Office, Japan. (Tokyo), 1926. Text & atlas vols. W. many b&w plates & photo's in the text, atlas vol. contains 7 cold. diagrams & 11 cold. maps. Ocl., text vol. t.e.g. (Both vols. w. waterstains & dam. to spine, both w. discreetly repaired spine ends, insides clean & bright).
JAPAN -- THE JAPAN-MANCHOUKUO Year Book 1937 (&) 1938. Cyclopedia of General Information and Statistics on the Empires of Japan and Manchoukuo. Tokyo, (1936-37). 2 vols. W. lge-fold. cold. map loosely inserted in each vol., num. ills. & advertisements. Lge-8°. Obrds. w. dust-j. (1 dust-j. a bit dam./rep.). -- THE MANCHOUKUO Year Book. 1942. (1942). Ocl. (Bind. a bit stained). -- THE MANCHURIA Year Book 1931 (&) 1932-33. Tokyo, 1931-32. 2 vols. W. fold. cold. maps & ills. Ocl. (1) w. dust-j. -- And 2 o. (7).
JAPAN -- TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN. Tokyo, 1879-1985. 67 in 70 vols. Several vols. w. illustr., plates & maps. Ohcl. (47), owrps. (19), ocl. (1), or. h. brds. (1).
JAPAN -- WAINWRIGHT, S.H. Beauty in Japan. (1935). W. 200 ill. Ocl. -- W.G. ASTON. Nihongi. Chronicles of Japan from the earliest times to A.D. 697. 1924. Ocl. -- G. KATO. Commemoration volume. The 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Zaidan Hojin Meiji Seitoku Kinen Gakkai or Meiji Japan Society. 1937. Ocl. -- W. DICKSON. Japan being a sketch of the history, government and officers of the Empire. 1869. W. cold. front. Ocl. (Bind. a bit soiled). -- T. PIPPON. Japans Reichsentwicklung von Jimmu Tennô b.z. Kamakura-Shôgunat. Ein Beitr. zur Rechtsidee und zur politischen Geschichte. 1937. Ocl. (Bottom of spine sl. dam.). W. author's autograph dedication to admiral (P.) Wenneker. -- And 4 o. (9).
JAPAN -- WAKAMATSU, K. Shinkô nô shôzoku. (Modern Nô Costumes). (1967). Prof. ill. Fol. Ocl., bound Japanese style. In or. chitsu w. bone fasteners. -- JIDAI HANAKURAE SAKURAIKE. (Textile sample book of the Sakurai family). 1968. Lge-8°. Leporello in ocl. -- And 4 o. (6).
JURRIAANSE, M.W. Catalogue of the archives of the Dutch central government of coastal Ceylon, 1640-1796. 1943. Sm-4°. Or. clothbacked brds. -- L. HOVY, (uitg.). Ceylonees plakkaatboek. Plakkaten e.a. wetten uitgevaardigd door het Nederl. bestuur op Ceylon, 1638-1796. 1991. 2 vols. Ocl. -- D.J.M. TATE. The making of modern South-East Asia. (1971-79). 2 vols. Ocl. w. dust-j. (Spines (a bit) faded). -- P.J. MOREE. A concise history of Dutch Mauritius, 1598-1710. (1998). Obrds. w. dust-j. -- And 1 o. (7).
LE COQ, A. v. Die Buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien. 1. Teil: Die Plastik. Berl., D. Reimer/E. Vohsen, 1922. 29 pp. W. several b&w ills. tipped on in the text and 45 plates (of which 10 cold.). Fol. Or. h. black mor. w. gilt lettering & illustr. on the upper side. (Spine a bit chafed, wear to spine ends & extremities, but a neat, well-bound copy w. crisp colours).
€ 90
PAKISTAN -- LYONS, I. & H. INGHOLT. Gandharan art in Pakistan. N.Y., Pantheon Books, 1957. 203 pp. W. many b&w photo's. Fol. Ohcl. w. (slightly dam.) dust-j.
SRI LANKA -- SINHALESE PALM LEAF BOOK. 19th c. Consisting of 224 lvs. between wooden polychrome covers, connected through 2 threads. (Cord pulled out from leaves on one side, else in fine condition).
THAILAND -- DÖHRING, K. Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam. Bangkok, (etc.), 1920. 3 vols. Lge-8º. W. many plates. Obrds. (Slight wear to extremities but inside clean & sound).